Slaying Different Dragons – A Quest — Songs or Stories

A little while ago Dr Andrew Weatherall was asked to give a talk on the difficult paediatric airway. The audience was a variety of emergency medicine doctors, nursing staff and allied health staff. He decided to try something dopey – audience participation. It wasn’t recorded so here’s the written version where the aim is toContinue reading “Slaying Different Dragons – A Quest — Songs or Stories”

Life can be cruel — Don’t Forget the Bubbles

This article was posted with the support of Shosh and Jonny. If you have any information about treatment options, anywhere in the world, then please contact tesssardavis@me.com. Life can be cruel. We see it all the time in our clinical practice but when it moves into our personal sphere then our perspective changes. Eve* is the…Continue reading “Life can be cruel — Don’t Forget the Bubbles”

Different Tablets and the Art of Distraction — Songs or Stories

Most of us in medicine like the idea that there is a bit of art to what we do. For the paediatric anaesthetist, the induction space is one of the top examples. Andrew Weatherall has a collection of thoughts around distraction at induction time. If you’re the sort of nerd who follows anaesthesia news, you […]Continue reading “Different Tablets and the Art of Distraction — Songs or Stories”

Filling the Gap — Songs or Stories

Everyone’s got a theory about what to do in the CICO emergency. Unless the CICO situation is all about kids. Andrew Weatherall goes through a recent review on this arising from the kids’ hospital in Melbourne. If you’ve spent a bit of time online you would have noticed a phenomenon that isn’t particular to medicalContinue reading “Filling the Gap — Songs or Stories”

Optimise your jaw thrust!

Optimize your jaw thrust. Not at angle of jaw, but rotate TMJ. #PSOOR #FOAMed #FOAMped pic.twitter.com/lbJyc65RUz — Tim Horeczko (@EMtogether) September 19, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Jaw thrust at angle of jaw=mouth closed. Jaw thrust with rotation at TMJ=mouth open. #PSOOR #FOAMed #FOAMped pic.twitter.com/fjgkXPKO42 — Tim Horeczko (@EMtogether) September 19, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js